On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:03:01AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> For ticket locks you really only needs atomic_fetch_add() and
> smp_store_release() and an architectural guarantees that the
> atomic_fetch_add() has fwd progress under contention and that a sub-word
> store (through smp_store_release()) will fail the SC.
>
> Then you can do something like:
>
> void lock(atomic_t *lock)
> {
> u32 val = atomic_fetch_add(1<<16, lock); /* SC, gives us RCsc */
> u16 ticket = val >> 16;
>
> for (;;) {
> if (ticket == (u16)val)
> break;
> cpu_relax();
> val = atomic_read_acquire(lock);
> }
A possibly better might be:
if (ticket == (u16)val)
return;
atomic_cond_read_acquire(lock, ticket == (u16)VAL);
Since that allows architectures to use WFE like constructs.
> }
>
> void unlock(atomic_t *lock)
> {
> u16 *ptr = (u16 *)lock + (!!__BIG_ENDIAN__);
> u32 val = atomic_read(lock);
>
> smp_store_release(ptr, (u16)val + 1);
> }
>
> That's _almost_ as simple as a test-and-set :-) It isn't quite optimal
> on x86 for not being allowed to use a memop on unlock, since its being
> forced into a load-store because of all the volatile, but whatever.
